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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-21
SHARP'WAS TOO SHARP.
BRIBERY BY WHOLESALE OR AS
DESIRED.

Testimony That Proves Sharp to be a
Very Sharp Man Indeed-What a
'"Dummy" Director Testified to-"Its
Allin the Family'-A Fine Collection
of Large Bills"
NEW YORK, June 20.-The trial of Jacob
Sharp was continued this morning. Thomas
IL Mclean was recalled and produced the
stock book of the Broadway Surface
road. 1t was perfectly blank, not certif-
cate being cut therefrom.
ONLY ONE CERTIFICATE GONE.
The stock ledger of the Broadway Surface
Railroad Company was also produced,
showing one entry. 1t was credit to Jacob
Sharp, by certificate No. 1, of 925 shares,
made june 90, 1885. The certificate cores
ponding with this entry was identified as
the only one ever detached from the stock
certificate book of the company.
John II. Pentz, one of the Broadway Sur
face road directors, was recalled
and said: II was what is
called a dummy director and acted for
Mr.. F'oShay and in the interest of the
Seventh Avenue railroad The issue of the
bonds was a part of the original scheme,
provided by the arrangement of the month
previous, when the Seventh Avenue Com
pany guaranteed 1925, 900 of those bonds. l
AM Mr.. Foshay's brother-in-law, and he
told me the week before the organization of
the Broadway Surface road that he wanted
me to be one of the directors. .
BIG BILLS WANTED.
Isaac " Brokaw, E. F. Coe and jeremiah
W. Curtis testified to having purchased
round amounts of the bonds, and at Kerr's
and Foshay's request had their checks
cashed in the largest bills they could OBJ
tain. Cashier Mervin, of the Pacific Bank,
testified that he cashed for Mr. Kerr four
checks, aggregating in amount $4,000,
and that at Mr.. Kerr's request he gave him
the largest bills he had, of $1,000 and
$4,000 denominations
The object of this testimony is to create
an inference that the collection of such
large sums, at that time, was to make up
the ''boodle" with which it is alleged the
aldermen were bribed
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BIG RAILROAD DEAL.
Rumors that Ives and Staynor Have
Perfected Their Big Scheme.


Perfected Their Big Scheme.
I CINCINNATI, June 20.-The Commercial
Gazette to-day prints three-column special
from New Y York purporting to give the in
side history of the Baltimore and Ohio deal
with Ives, Staynor G. Co. The main point
of the story is that Messrs. Ives and Stay
nor made contract with Mr. Garrett by
which they were to get the controlling in
terest in the Baltimore and Ohio for about
S16,000,000 That they have paid Mr.. Gar
rett $40. 900 in cash, $4,000 in a certified
check and 15S, 900 shares of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton preferred stock, and
that they have promised to make good the
balance of the overdue payment of 100000.
The final outcome is to be a continuous road
from Baltimore to st. Louis, using the
Baltimore and Ohio to Parkersburg and
the Vandalia thence to st. Louis. The
special goes on to say that it is proposed, at
a meeting to be held here tomorrow, to au-
thorize the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton directors to divert from its original pur-
pose the proceeds of the preferred stock au-
thoriZed in September last for redeeming
the bonds and the guaranteed stocks so that
these proceeds may be used for the general
purposes of the company.
The Commercial Gazette says editor
tally: IF they (the new owners of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton are able
to go and gather in the Baltimore and Ohio
and employ that as they have the Cincin-
mutt, Hamilton and Dayton, the country
will have the benefit of about as audacious
job of adventurous financiering as has
ever been undertaken. There is this pecu-
liarity that modifies the matter to con-
siderable extent. Nearly the whole of the
stock of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton is held by the parties who are engaged
In the manipulations Whether the few
small stockholders left out, will take any
interest in the action tomorrow, remains
TO be seen."
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ANGRY FRENCHMEN.
Very Indignant Over the Sentence of
the Alsatian Prisoners.

PARIS, June 20-The Paris newspapers
express great Indignation over the sentences
decreed at Leipsic against the Alsatian
members of the Patriotic League, just con-
victed of high treason. for assisting in the
agitation to keep alive the anti-annexation
feeling in Alsace- Lorraine. The league it
self protests strongly against the sentences
and has issued circular on the subject
This twits the Germans with being as
actively engaged in the work of espionage
as they accuse the French of being.
NJ. DeRoulede, NJ. Sansbouf and other
members of the League have signed an ap-
peal to President Grevy begging him to in
tervene for the release of Koechlin, sentenced
to one years Imprisonment i'll fortress, but
it is not thought probable that M. Grevy
will accede
NEW REGIMENTS PROJECTED.
Gen. Ferron, the Minister of War, intro
duced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day
bills for the creation of several new regi-
ments. These bills were submitted to the
Cabinet at the meeting on Saturday last.
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EMoRY's COMMENCEMENT.
Senator Colquitt to Address the Stu,
dents-Y Yesterday's Exercises.


dents Yesterdays Exercises.
OXFORD, GA, June 20-This was sopho-
more day, The exercises of the day were
opened with aprayer by Rev C. A. Evans, of
Augusta. The following speakers contested
for the two medals given for the best two
speeches, known as the Stewart prize med
ais; 7. d. Cunningham, of FORSYTH, Ga. ::
j. +, DAVIS, of Rock Mart, Ga. J. w. Dun
can, of Vinita, |, T.. r, f. Eakes, of Cum
ming, Ga: E. P. Fearne, of Thomasvillo,
Ga. J: W. Gillespie, of Harmony Grove,
Ga. w. G. Griffin, of Oxford Ga; j. l..
Mickler, of Welborn, Fla II. G. Parks, of
Atlanta, Ga, ,; w. A. Smith, of Los Angeles,
Cal; C. H. Figner, of White Sulphur
Springs, Ga. p. j. Williams, of Columbus,
Ga. The medals will be delivered tomorrow
at the close Of the junior class exercises,
at $3.50 p. m, with an address by Senator
Alfred II. Colquitt, of Atlanta The stu
dents IN technology will entertain our visi
tors with original speeches. This promises
TO be one of our most interesting exercises
We are proud to Say of our President that
he has established one of the finest, most
thoroughly equipped and most sys-
tematlc running schools south
of New a England. The students
have done credit TO their Alma Mater, and
those in charge of the departments are
proud Of the boys dubbed as Techs" At
p. IN. the champion debate between few
of the Phi Gamma societies will take place
and then the delivery of medals for the best
original essays
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A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS.
1t is Covered With Shaggy Hair and Ii
Very Odd Indeed.

AsHEvlLLE, N. c., June 1s.--A child
with two heads was born yesterday in the
little town of Coopers, eight miles east of
this place. The heads are back to back.
The front face is perfect, while the one at
the back is not regular. There is only one
neck for the two skulls, and the hair on the
forehead comes down to the eyes The
arms of this phenomenon are covered with a
heavy, shaggy growth of hair entirely to
the wrists Ruth and Harvey Lyth, two
hard-working colored people, are the
parents of this strange being. The child is
an unusually large one, weighing about six
teen pounds and apparently two feet long
Is is almost white, and has fair features
that are rather pleasing when the shaggy
forehead and rear head are concealed. It's
voice is not that of the human young, but
suggestive of the lower animals in its
strange, unnatural cries. 1t has not taken
nourishment from its mother. bat greedily
swallows what is otherwise given it. The
mother appears attached to this strange
creature, and refers to 1t in terms of endear-
mant
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SOCIALISTS IN DANGER.
ARREST OF A MEMBER OF THE
GERMAN REICHSTAG.

The Iron Chancellor Showing His
Hand = Proceedings of the Diet of
Hesse--Germany's New Bills-Frecnh-
men Indignant at the eAlsace-Lorraine
Sentences-Y Yesterday in Europe.
BERLIN, June 20.-Herr Kraecker, So
cialist member of the Reichstag, was ar
rested last Saturday the moment he left the
legislative building after the closing of the
session.
HESSE AND THE VATICAN.
The Second Chamber of the Diet of HeSse
has passed the ecclesiastical bill settling the
conflict between Hesse and the Vatican.
FEAR OF SECRET SOCIETIES.
The arrest of Deputy Kraecker Saturday
evening is attributed to his being member
of a secret society, the centre of which is
at Breslau. Herr Jungst, who was arrested
at Wurzburg, and Markuse, student, ar
rested at Breslau, are members of the same
society.
THE PoPE's SIGNIFICANT WORDS.
The Gerndnid publishes the text of the
speech made by the Pope recently TO the
pilgrims going to Jerusalem. After an ap-
peal to them to have confidence in the
wisdom and tact of the Vatican, comes the
following significant passage: :'The present
modus vivende for Prussian Catholics does
not include all the demands of the Papal
See. The church in Prussia will yet obtain
all its liberty The Vatican continues to
negotiate in this direction"
SPECIAL MISSION.
ROME, June 20-The Pope has sent Car
dinal Persico, a member of the Congregation
for Special Ecclesiastical Affairs, on spe-
cial Mission to the Irish Bishops.
FATAL FIRE-DAMP EXPLOSION.
PARIS, June 20.-An explosion of fire.
damp occurred to-day in the boring of the
new railway tunnel at Gap, in the depart
ment of the Hautes-Alpes. Twelve Italian
laborers were killed and thirty-five injured.
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PRESIDENT CECIL DEAD.
A Yellow Fever Rumor Ascertained to
be Only "Canard."

be Only "Canard."
JACKSONVILLE, June 20.-.A rumor
reached here last week TO the effect that a
family named Peters was sick of yellow
fever at Ybor City, near Tampa, and that
efforts We're being made to keep the fact a
secret. As soon as this information reached
the Jacksonville Board of Health a dis.
patch was sent Mr.. Paul LaLane,
Jacksonville's Health Officer at Tampa,
with instructions that he should thoroughly
investigate the matter, and report imme-
diately. This morning a communication
was received from him stating that the re.
port was canard, and that no such family
ever lived in Ybor City.
PRESIDENT CECIL DEAD.
Information was received here this morn
ing from New York of the death of Mr..
George Cecil the President of the DeBary-
Baya line of steamers. The cause of death
was a stroke OF paralysis. Owing to his
death all the steamboats, on the river had
their flags at half-mast to day.
RAILROAD RUMoRs.
1t is rumored here tonight that the Jack.
sonville, Tampa and Key West railroad has
absorbed the White railroad, which is com.
pleted from Palatka to New Smyrna, and
that it is the purpose Of the purchasing road
to extend the White road from New Smyrna
southwark $50 miles, to Jupiter Inlet
KEY VESTS USUAL REPORT.
KEY WEST, June 20.-There has been one
new case of yellow fever since yesterday
and Frank After, of Danville, O., tran
sient carpenter, died at the hospital.
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A Cincinnati Bank in Trouble.

CINCINNATI, June 20.-Eugene Powell. a
bank examiner sent here by the Treasury
Department from Washington, this
afternoon served an official notice
on the Fidelity National Bank of
this city, that in consequence of its
allowing its drafts to go to protest it would
not be permitted to open tomorrow except
under a new organization, which would ex-
clude from Office E. L. Harper, Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager; Ammi Baldwin,
cashier, and Ben E. Hopkins, assistant
cashier. There will be a meeting Of the
stockholders at tomorrow morning to try
20 effect a reorganization and carry the
business right along This matter all the
Cincinnati papers have agreed not to print
1t is believed the bank will go right along
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A STRIKE AT THE KNIGHTS.
New Rules Adopted by the Amalga
mated Association Yesterday.

New Rules Adopted by the Amalga-
mated Association Yesterday.
PITTSBURG, June 20.-The session of the
Amalgamated Association to-day, was one
of the most important yet held. The COM
mittee on the constitution, submitted its re-
port, making several recommendations
which show that the association is determ-
ined to strengthen its ranks, so as to rest on
such firm foundation that they will have
no further fear of encroachments from the
Knights of Labor. The report recommend
ed that the clause reading, working by
the ton" be so arranged that the members
working by the day may also become
members of the association. This will take in
nearly everybody employed about the mill
and will increase the membership 'of the
organization several thousand. The propo-
sition in reference to prohibiting members
of the Knights of Labor from joining the
association was amended SO as to read: "On
and after April !, 1888, no member of this
association can become a member of the
Knights of Labor" The recommendation
that the mills be shut down for two weeks
during the summer failed to pass. With
those amendments and changes, the report,
after a long discussion, was adopted. After
receiving the report of the committee on
president and other officers and transacting
some routine DuslneSs, bne convention du-
journed. The final adjournment will
probably take place Wednesday.
A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
The committee of the Iron Manufactur-
ers Association appointed to confer with a
committee from the Amelgamated Associa-
tion of the iron and steel workers, held a
preparatory meeting here to-day. The con-
ference committee rs finally ccApleted is
as follows: A. X. Keating, B. FN3\nes, G.
L. Fitzhugh, A. +. Painter, GeoiHNF IF, Nc
Lean, j. W. Baily, James X. VeFns Sam
uel r. Owens, James H. Lindsay, DA = Oil
yer, George Chaffee, Mr.. Crossman w.
G. Cronmeyer, from the PittsbWg IN \ct !;
II. o. Bennett and James Nelso1 fros be
BIahoning valley; S. g. Boyer and Chd1H IS
j. Trouter, from Cincinnati; w. III. Tai
mon and n L. Whitaker, from Wheeling.
The members OF the committee were rather
chary about making public what stand they
proposed to take on the wage question. b. j.
Jones was OF this number, but he said as he
cast sidelong glance ut the scale which he
held in his hand: 1T is perfectly absurd for
the Amalgamated Association 10 ask for
this scaleh II was learned after the adj
journment that il had been decided to take
a firm stand not to grant the 10 per cent.
advance in wages. With this understand
ing the committee will meet the conference
committee OF tho Ainalgamated Association
tomorrow.
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HOT WEATHER WAVE.
signal Service Offers no Aid, But Only
Says Wait Patiently.


WASHINGTON, June 20-The warm
weather which has prevailed for the last
few days in nearly every part Of the coun-
try continues, and at the signal office it is
said that immediate relief is TO be expected
only from local thunder storms Should the
wlnd shift to the east, however, it would
nave the effect of reducing the temperature
In the States bordering on the ocean. At Z
o'clock this morning the thermometer regis.
tered q IN Washington, IA in Cincinnati
and ~ In st. Louis, while in Boston and
Rochester, where cloudy weather apd
eaSterly winds prevailed, the thermometer
indicated only So to ST.. The maximum
heat IN Washington to-day was So.
GoULD's GENEROUS ACT.
The Mount Vernon estate where the re-
mains OF Washington lie entombed, has
been enlarged by the addition of a tract of
937s acres on the northern side near the old
Washington mansion. 1t was secured
through the generosity of Mr.. Jay Gould.
While on his way up Potomac from Fort
resS Monroe recently, in his yacht Atalanta,
Mr. Gould stopped at Mount Vernon and
was shown around the grounds. He ex.
pressed great interest in the place and the
admirable manner in which it is cared for.
In the course of the conversation the Super
tLc letllu III QUESTION
was much needed to protect the property
from encroachment. Mr. Gould immediate
~ authorized the purchase of the land at
his expense, and it has been bought and
turned over to the Mount Vernon regents.
SETTLING UP NATIONAL DRILL DEBTS.
Notice of the assessment of 40 per cent.
has been served upon subscribers to the
guarantee fund of the national drill to pay
bills now in hand amounting to $4,000.
THAT VACANT CHAIR.
It is considered as certain that the Presi-
dent will appoint Secretary Lamar to the
vacancy on the Supreme bench, although
Secretary Lamar says that he knows moth
ing more about the matter than he has seen
in the newspapers. If Mr.. Lamar is ap-
pointed his successor will probably be Sena-
tor Colquitt, of Georgia. Senator Brown,
and Representatives Blount, Clements and
Crisp made another visit to the White House
to-day to urge the appointment of Repre-
sentative Hammond to the Supreme bench.
All of Mr.. Hammonds Congressional friends
are sending in requests that his name be ia
vorably considered Mr.. Hammond seems
to be the most active candidate.
HE CHANGES HIS MIND.
Representative Blount. of Georgia, now ex-
presses himself as heartily in favor of build
ing a new executive mansion for the Presi-
dent. As member of the Appropriation
Committee he antagonized all efforts to re-
model or improve the White House.
PATIoTIC WORDS.
Representative Crisp, of Georgia, said to-
day: "Our folks in the South are all fol
Cleveland and the old flag. Not these battle
flags, but the old flag of the Union. God
knows we don't want the battle flags. We
are too busy to waste time in old issues Of
that sort y
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The Shenandoah Valley Railroad.

NEW YORK, June 20-The first mortgage
bondholders committee of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad announced to-day that they
accepted the proposition made by the Nor
folk and Western Railroad. The terms of
Eie proposition provide for the purchase OF
sDe property at foreclosure and the forma-
ton of new company which will issue five
million one hundred thousand first mortgage
bonds, $S,000,000 preferred stock, and
common stock to the amount Of the old
Hock outstanding. Norfolk and Western
agrees TO lease the Shenandoah Valley for
bJ9 years, and pay over not less than 30 per
cent of gross earnings, but always as much
bs the interest on first mortgage bonds, and
endorses the bonds with this stipulation.
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Beaufort Items in Short Metre.

BEAUFORT, S. c., June 1S.---Since the last
official appearance Of Beaufort in the NEWS,
several months ago, we have taken gigantic
strides in business improvement. We have
been on a building boom for months past,
and have not come TO the end of it yet, and
the houses all seem to find occupants, too.
Among the buildings that have been torn
down 70 be replaced by better is that relic
of medieval times, the Episcopal rectory,
which has been purchased. by Mr.. Dale and
is being rebuilt The workmen who pulled
it down found in it some old coins and bull
lets. probably traces OF colonial times, when
Indians were still established about here.
Another sign of progress is that we are
at last going to have town clock in the
shape of the old Rip Van Winkle clock of
st. Helena church, which has been slumber-
ing for about twenty years, but is now be
ing repaired in order to go TO work again.
This will be great convenience. We now
have direct communication with New York
through the steamer that touches here. To
be sure IL doesn't come very often, but the
factis there that it has come and will come
again. An entering wedgel
We did expect better things OF Gen. AL
exander and the Port Royal railroad than
they have done for us. Never mind, we'll
have our own railroad sometime.
There have been one or two private pic
MICS to the old fort. Ihere Is 10 DC large
german at O private residence next week,
and on July the Ladies Aid will give an
excursion TO Button to see the tilt between
the Beaufort District Troop and the Charles
ton Light Dragons.
The public school closes on June "A, much
20 the relief both of teachers and pupils.
The two gatling guns for the Beaufort
Artillery have arrived, but have not, as yet,
made their debut.
We are parching up with dust and
drought, and vegetables are suffering; but
to make amends, we have the most lovely
sea breezes right from Bay Point Sailing
parties are much in vogue now.
Appropos of sailing: So the Savannah
Yacht Club is going tdsbreak 'spearn with
us in JULY That is not the correct nauti-
cal expression, but will pass. Come on
wen meet you and beat you, too. IL we
know anything in these parts we know how
10 sail boats.
Some few families are mountainward
bound this year. Among them Col. Elliott
and family, who are OFT TO Flat Rock, N.
c., and Mr. Middleton Elliott and fami-
ly, who have gone to Georgia for the sum
iner. Some others are going TO try Bay
Point
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Charles Alden suicides.

RANDOLPH, MASS, Jnne 20.-Charles AL.
den, the inventor of the milk condensing,
fruit evaporating and other processes, com
mitted suicide this morning at the Elms
House by shooting. He was at one time
very wealthy. He was rs years old and had
been subject TO mental alteration for sew
eral weeks on account of his financial diff
cltlfipe
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wilson TO Fight for Liberty.

TORONTO. June 20.--James Alexander
Wilson. the defaulting Treasurer of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company,
bf Philadelphia, was taken before an acting
bolce magistrate this morning and re-
handed until Eriday without being asked to
blend This course was pursued 50 as to en-
bble witnesses mid papers from Philadel-
phia to arrive. Wilson has engaged the
iblest criminal lawyer at the bar here
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Bootnakers Strike Ended.

MANCHESTER, MASS, June 20.--Ata a mass
meeting of the locked-out bootmakers
to-day Il was decided that all but the last
ers and bottoners should return to work on
the best terms possible. This practically
ends the great strike which has been in
progress for five months. The lasters and
bottomers will continue the struggle to have
the free shop notice torn down.
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Bloomington, Ills, says The heat has
been dreadful hereabout for nearly week,
eliminating yesterday with a record Of
1l6' in the sun at o'clock in the afternoon,
and 90 in houses was usually considered
cool. Saturday evening the county was
swept by a heavy gale from the west, and
the grain, which was ready to cut, was
badly tangled by the wind.
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An Arrested Murderer sMcide

CHICAGO, June 20-Henry Doelitch, the
German butcher who murdered Frank
Meidel, was captured at Elgin this afternoon
and locked mp. The message to the Chief of
Police announcing the fact was followed in
less than ten minutes by another message
that Doeitch was dead The murderer had
committed suicide by hanging himself in
L
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Maxwell, alias Brooks, TO Hang.

Sr. Lours, june 20 Maxwell, alias
Brooks, the murderer of Preller, is to be
banged Tho Supreme Court refuses to re-
verse the decision Of the lower court. The
biisoner was unofiicially notified by his at
blneys Yesterday and was very much de-
ected, saying that his trial was a farce
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MORE THAN THEIR SHARE.

RICHMOND, VA, June 20.-Another rain
storm, accompanied by very severe thunder
and lightning, passed over this city between
II and 12 o'clock tonight. Two electric
light poles were struck by lightning, and a
part of the city is now in darkness
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Henry ward Beecher's Successor

NEW YoaK, June 20.-Rev. C. Stowe,
son of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, who
filed the pulpit Of the late Henry Ward
Beechcr yesterday, viii probably be ap-
pointed permanently pastor Of Plymouth
church Mr.. Stowe is about 80 years old.